Showtime’s buzzy boomer-bait restricted collection The Comey Rule is coming subsequent month, and the cable community has launched the primary full trailer, which provides us one of the best look but at Brendan Gleeson‘s interpretation of Donald Trump. It is fairly an impression, with Gleeson nailing the president’s tone and cadence however retaining his personal signature softness on consonants. It is fairly unsettling.
The Comey Rule is predicated on former FBI director James Comey’s memoir A Greater Loyalty, and dramatizes the turbulent few months from Comey saying an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail servers — one of many essential occasions that tipped the 2016 election in Trump’s favor — to the beginnings of the Russiagate investigation and Trump’s extraordinary calls for of loyalty from Comey, that culminated in Comey resigning from the FBI. Within the present, Comey is performed by Jeff Daniels in full “my best flaw is that I care about justice too rattling a lot” mode. Does Comey deserve a heroic miniseries? No. Will this political present make anybody suppose in a different way about what occurred or sway how they’ll vote in 2020? No. Are we curious to see what Trump tweets about Gleeson’s portrayal of him? Sure, although we want we weren’t.
The restricted collection is written and directed by Captain Phillips‘ Billy Ray, and encompasses a prestigious forged together with Holly Hunter as former Performing Legal professional Common Sally Yates, Michael Kelly as former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Jonathan Banks as former Nationwide Intelligence Director James Clapper.
The Comey Rule airs in two elements on Sunday, Sept. 27 and Monday, Sept. 28 on Showtime.
Brendan Gleeson, The Comey Rule